Stats and Reflection

Our BOINC GPU grid computed 131 units for the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park - Molecular Simulation of Proteins.  This means that through the duration of this project, our computer looked at 131 units of proteins using its computational power.  19,111 tasks are currently in progress on this grid, and we have contributed to one of them.  This company currently has 45,000 computers computing for this research.  It really shows how much power is needed to do these simulations for their research.  We find this incredible because we feel like we helped make a difference without really doing direct work.  It's crazy how technology is advanced enough that we were able to contribute to research.  It's amazing how anyone in the world with an electronic device with computational power can help contribute to any research that they are interested in by simply downloading a program.  This project really helped bridge the gap between the concepts we were learning in class to real world research and issues.  We were able to make new connections between a commonly known disease to evolutionary ideas we learned.  We would have never taken this approach in looking at Schizophrenia.  If it weren't for this project, we wouldn't know about the power of grid mapping and using blogs.